What do you say when love ends? This collection of quotes about breaking up, divorce and separation may help you find the right words.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee. -- Martial (Roman Poet)
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears. -- Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake
It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. -- Rouchefoucauld.
After all, My erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was no love,
Just because it perished?
--- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Why should a foolish marriage vow
Which long ago was made,
Oblige us to each other now
When passion is decayed?
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
The loss of love is a terrible thing; they lie who say that death is worse. -- Countee Cullen
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part;
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart
That thus so cleanly U myself can free.
-- Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love. -- Georges Courteline
I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
-- Paul Simon
And wilt thou leave me thus,
That hath loved thee so long
In wealth and woe among:
And is thy heart so strong
As for to leave me thus?
-- Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
He thaught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two. -- W. Somerset Maugham
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster
'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (In Memoriam)
Why waste your tears on someone who makes you cry? -- Kristen Dunst
Now I know I've got a heart, because it's breaking.
— The Tin Man to Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, 1939
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton
You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.
-- Marilyn Peterson
Faithless to one, faithful to one. -- Lyly (quotes about cheating)
Divorces are made in heaven. -- Oscar Wilde
I never knew but one woman who would not take gold - and she took diamonds. -- Horace Walpole (1717-1797)
Love is the word used to label the sexual
excitement of the young, the habituation of the
middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -- John Ciardi
No young man is ever jilted; he is allowed to escape. -- Meredith
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is doubtless a separation. -- Lord Chesterfield
Love: Two minds without a single thought.
--Philip Barry
The anger of lovers renews their love. -- Terence, The Woman of Andros (166 B.C.)
Where love fails we espy all faults. -- John Ray (1670)
Alimony -- The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
-- H.L. Mencken
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton
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